1895

Years: 1892 1893 1894 - 1895 - 1896 1897 1898
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1895 in art 1895 in film 1895 in literature 1895 in music 1895 in science 1895 in sports List of state leaders in 1895 List of religious leaders in 1895

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 5 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island
February 14 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St. James' Theatre in London).
March 1 - William L. Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General
March 3 - In Munich, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates
March 22 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere display their first moving picture film in Paris – it shows workers of their factory leaving for the lunch hour
April 6 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
April 14 - a major earthquake severely damages Ljubljana, Slovenia.
April 17 - The Treaty of Maguan (also as “Treaty of Shimonoseki”) was signed between China and Japan. This marks the end of the first Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 25 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency" and sentenced to serve two years in a London prison.
June 11 - Britain annexes Togoland
June 28 - Union of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador begins (ends in 1898)
August 19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
September 3 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0.).
November 5 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 8 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
November 27 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies (he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 10, 1896).

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes a space elevator

Last major earthquake in the New Madrid Fault Zone

Grace Chisholm Young, the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university

Births

January 1 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director
January 20 - George Burns, actor, comedian (d. 1996)
January 21 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish-French couturier (d. 1972)
January 24 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (d. 1976)
January 30 - Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi party leader( d. 1936)
February 2 - George Halas, American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League (d. 1983)
February 6 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948)
February 8 - King Vidor, director (d. 1982)
February 11 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer.
February 14 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
February 15 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete
February 21 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
March 3 - Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff
March 17 - Shemp Howard, actor ("The Three Stooges") (d. 1955)
March 20 - Robert Benoist, Grand Prix motor racing driver/war hero
March 29 - Ernst Jünger, author (d. 1998)
March 30 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975)
April 1 - Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer
April 15 - Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player
April 20 - Emile Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973)
April 26 - Nathaniel Kleitman, sleep researcher (d. 1999)
May 6 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
May 8 - Fulton J. Sheen, bishop, television personality (d. 1979)
May 9 - Richard Bathelmess, actor (d. 1963)
July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
July 12 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect
July 25 - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (d. 1977)
September 11 - Vinoba Bhave
September 28 - Louis Pasteur, French chemist
October 2 - Bud Abbott, actor
October 4 - Buster Keaton, American actor and film director
October 8 - Ahmet Zog, King of Albania
October 19 - Lewis Mumford, historian
October 21 - Edna Purviance, actress
October 25 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
November 29 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (d. 1976)
December 2 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967)
December 14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, later Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Deaths

February 20 - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and author.
March 2 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist Painter
March 10 - Charles Frederick Worth couturier
May 19 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (Dos Rios)
May 21 - Franz von Suppé, composer
June 29 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
October 25 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor
November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author, playwright